Monthly Archives: March 2022

D-B is Tennessee’s 4-A State Basketball Champ!!

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The Indians won their first state basketball title since 1945 with a 69-60 victory over Bearden.

D-B Championship team, cheerleaders and fans after the victory over Bearden.

Classmate Chip Hammett summarized the team’s efforts in the championship series nicely: “The semi-final game and the final game both went into overtime. D-B beat Bartlett (Memphis) and then Bearden (Knoxville) in two very exciting games for the Tennessee State Championship. The Indians are back on top like when we left in 1960.”

The Times News March 22nd edition included a good editorial on the victory stating: "This was a tremendous victory for the best D-B team in the memory of most folks alive today." See the editorial here.

MaxPreps also has a good article on DB’s basketball program and the significance of the championship to the program.  Click here to see the article.

St. Patty’s Day Update from Jane

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Hey DB Class of 1960

Here are updates on a few things.

For a lot of years we have relied on Sue Shaulis Thomas and Barbara Williams Coughenour to take care of most of our communications and record keeping.

It has been wonderful to keep up with each other through the internet and otherwise over the years.  We can’t let our great group of classmates lose touch – but it can happen as we age and have little blips here and there! So - everyone must take a little responsibility and try to stay in touch. When your contact information changes please let us know.

Recent moves and illnesses have disrupted our communication chain.  Sue and Rich moved to Colorado to be closer to their son. Barbara had a stroke several weeks ago and is now recovering at home – doing well, continuing with a course of Physical Therapy and improving with help from friends and family.  She was at First Friday this month!

Barbara (bcoughenour@gmail.com or 423-367-4293) is still the main google communicator with Ben Harris (harris1@chartertn.net or 423-239-0526) and Bill Cobb (bcobb10b@gmail.com or 678-634-7274) filling in during her recent illness and recovery.  Bill is handling our Google Group updates and Ben is updating the local First Friday list. Bill and Ben will be doing those announcements for a while.

Margaret Ketron Colley and Jane Beck Harris have taken responsibility for our bank account - $1,412 which is leftover from past reunions and is used as seed money for planning for new reunions, subsidize the cost of reunions and other things deemed worthy by the local First Friday group.

Jane Beck Harris is also the keeper of the address (email and snail mail) changes so please send them to her. (jharris@chartertn.net or 423-239-9477)  She could benefit from an individual to be her back-up. Need to be able to use excel – nothing fancy just keeping data.  And you can be a Kingsport resident or live nearly anywhere if you can communicate via email. Check your information and send any updates to Jane.

Katie Taggart Driskell maintains a comprehensive listing of our deceased classmates so contact her if you hear of a death. (ktdriskell@gmail.com or 423-343-3668)  Send obits to Bill Cobb so he can distribute them to all classmates via the Google Group and our web site. (bcobb10b@gmail.com or 678-634-7274)

- Jane Harris